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Seneca the Younger was a statesman and philosopher who lived in Rome around the dawn of the Common Era. Though he wrote a large amount of tragedies and other works, today he’s perhaps best known for his writing on Stoic philosophy and principles.
Seneca didn’t write books about Stoicism; rather, he composed essays and sent letters over the course of his lifetime that addressed that philosophy. Since these essays and letters are addressed to his friends and contemporaries, they’re written in a conversational style, and thus referred to as his “Dialogues.” Some were written to friends on the death of their loved ones, in an effort to console and comfort them. Others were...
Moral Letters to Lucilius
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Seneca was a Stoic philosopher and statesman in Rome’s early post-Augustan era. He was Nero’s tutor, and then his advisor when Nero became emperor in 54 CE. After Seneca retired from public life, he wrote a series of letters to his friend Lucilius, the procurator of Sicily. These letters were circulated right before Seneca’s death in 65 CE, when Nero forced him to commit suicide for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy.
These letters, which were written for widespread publication as well as directly to Lucilius, mainly focus on guiding the reader to a life well-lived....










